DCWP y NYPD emitieron 2.427 multas a vendedores ambulantes durante el periodo que comprende junio 2021 y mayo 2022, lo que significa un aumento del 33 por ciento en comparación con 2019, cuando la policía emitió 1.609 multas.
Health and Environment
For NYC Tenants with Inadequate Heat, Enforcement Can Be Elusive
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City Limits examined 311 data related to heat and hot water complaints over the past three years, and found the highest number were in areas populated by communities of color and lower-income individuals. They include Washington Heights, followed by several neighborhoods in The Bronx, including the community district where the deadly Twin Parks fire occurred.
CityPlate: Food Policy in NYC
NYC Street Vendor Enforcement Back at Pre-Pandemic Levels, Despite Shift Away From NYPD
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From June to December 2021, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), which took over street vendor inspection and enforcement duties in 2021, issued 762 fines, and another 171 fines so far this year. The top five zip codes that saw the most enforcement were those with large immigrant populations.
Housing and Homelessness
Dilapidated Apartments, Lousy Landlords Plague NYC’s Sprawling ‘Scattered-Site’ Supportive Housing Network
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There are some 16,000 scattered-site supportive housing units across the city, rented and overseen by nonprofits contracted to provide services to tenants. But outdated contracts that trail actual market rents mean the organizations—and the state and city agencies that fund them—are propping up some of the city’s worst housing.
Housing and Homelessness
Carrión Takes Helm at NYC Housing Agency After Stint as ‘Worst Evictor’ Consultant
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New York City’s new housing commissioner is returning to public office after a years-long stint working with a quick-to-evict Bronx developer recently subject to a state investigation, raising concerns among tenants and advocates in the borough.
CIty Limits Investigative Internship Program
Plastic Bags Still Ubiquitous in NYC Shops, Months After Enforcement of Ban Began
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The effectiveness of New York’s plastic bag ban could serve as a portend for other, similar bans on single-use plastics either already approved or under discussion at both the city and state legislative levels. To get a better sense of how its implementation is going, City Limits’ CLARIFY interns spoke to more than 50 bodega owners and store workers in the outer boroughs to see if they’re still using plastic, and if so, to tell us why.
Housing and Homelessness
What Ever Happened to CBAs? The Rise and Fall of ‘Community Benefits Agreements’ in NYC
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Once a seemingly promising structure to ensure that real estate groups don’t run roughshod over local neighborhoods in development deals—and still a common practice in other cities—CBAs are now disdained by many New York City community groups and developers alike. The mechanism’s demise is a lesson, development experts say, in both the strength and limitations of demanding concessions in exchange for neighborhood-changing construction projects.
Zoned Out: Examining the Impact of NYC's Rezonings
House Flippers Continue to Target East New York. Residents Blame the 2016 Rezoning
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Home prices in the predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood began to tick up before then-Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to rezone 190 blocks in 2014. But affordable housing advocates and local residents say the rezoning, approved in 2016, only drove more speculators to scoop up homes, jack up prices and push out existing residents.
Health and Environment
Company Settles With Home Health Aides Seeking Unpaid Wages For Round-the-Clock Care
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State guidelines and federal regulations mandate that home health aides working 24 hours at a client’s home get eight hours for sleep and three hours of meal breaks, all unpaid. But many workers say the rule routinely leads to underpayment because their patients actually need constant care, leaving the aides little time to sleep or take breaks.
City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
Two Months After Ida, Only 32 Undocumented New Yorkers Have Received Storm Damage Relief Funds
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So far, 85 undocumented applicants have been approved to receive the city and state joint relief assistance funds; another 33,000 survivors have been approved for FEMA’s Individual Assistance Program as of Nov. 21. Both relief programs are set to close on Dec. 6.
Zoned Out: Examining the Impact of NYC's Rezonings
3 Years After Bronx Rezoning, Jerome Avenue Auto Shops Under Pressure
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As part of the 2018 Jerome Avenue rezoning deal, city officials committed $1.5 million in financial assistance for area merchants, intended to help relocate existing businesses that would be displaced. But officials have yet to issue any such grants, a City Limits investigation found.
